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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, swise@opengridcomputing.com, divy@chelsio.com,
	kxie@chelsio.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu,
	daisyc@us.ibm.com, wenxiong@us.ibm.com, bhua@us.ibm.com,
	dm@chelsio.com, leedom@chelsio.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:07:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adafxpbzga0.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080809.224637.69833549.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:46:37 -0700 (PDT)")

 > Why show these special connections if the user cannot interact with or
 > shape the stream at all like normal ones?

So that an admin can see what connections are open, so that the stack
doesn't try to reuse the same 4-tuple for another connection, etc, etc.

 > And I even wonder, these days, if you probably get %90 or more of the
 > gain these "optimized" iSCSI connections obtain from things like LRO.

Yes, that's the question -- are stateless offloads (plus CRC32C in the
CPU etc) going to give good enough performance that the whole TCP
offload exercise is pointless?  The only issue is that I don't see how
to avoid the fundamental 3X increase in memory bandwidth that is chewed
up if the NIC can't do direct placement.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30  0:19 [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator Karen Xie
2008-07-30 18:15 ` Shyam_Iyer
2008-07-30 18:37   ` Karen Xie
2008-07-30 19:21 ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30 19:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-30 21:35   ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-01  0:51     ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-07 18:45       ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-07 20:07         ` Mike Christie
2008-08-08 18:09         ` Steve Wise
2008-08-08 22:15           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-08 22:20             ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-09  7:28             ` David Miller
2008-08-09 14:04               ` Steve Wise
2008-08-10  5:14               ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-10  5:47                 ` David Miller
2008-08-10  6:34                   ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-10 17:57                   ` Steve Wise
2008-08-11 16:09                   ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:09                     ` David Miller
2008-08-11 21:37                       ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:51                         ` David Miller
2008-08-11 23:20                       ` Steve Wise
2008-08-11 23:45                         ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-12  0:22                         ` David Miller
2008-08-10  5:12             ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-10  5:46               ` David Miller
2008-08-11 16:07                 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-08-11 21:08                   ` David Miller
2008-08-11 21:39                     ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:52                       ` David Miller
2008-08-11 18:13                 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-11 21:12                   ` David Miller
2008-08-11 21:41                     ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:53                       ` David Miller
2008-08-12 21:57                         ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-12 22:01                           ` David Miller
2008-08-12 22:02                           ` David Miller
2008-08-12 22:21                             ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-13  1:57                               ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-13 18:35                               ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-13 19:29                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-13 20:13                                   ` David Miller
2008-08-14 18:24                                   ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-14 21:59                                     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-08-13 20:23                                 ` David Miller
2008-08-14 18:27                                   ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-14 18:30                                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-13 21:27                         ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-13 22:08                           ` David Miller
2008-08-13 23:03                             ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-13 23:12                               ` David Miller
2008-08-14  1:26                                 ` Tom Tucker
2008-08-14  1:37                                   ` David Miller
2008-08-14  1:52                                     ` Steve Wise
2008-08-14  2:05                                       ` David Miller
2008-08-14  2:44                                         ` Steve Wise
2008-08-14  1:57                                     ` Tom Tucker
2008-08-14  2:07                                       ` David Miller
2008-08-14  2:09                                   ` David Miller
2008-08-14 20:45                     ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-08-14 22:23                       ` David Miller
2008-08-15 12:19                         ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-08-10  6:24               ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-10  9:19               ` Alan Cox
2008-08-10 12:49                 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-10 14:54                   ` James Bottomley
     [not found]                     ` <1218380086.3418.21.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-11 16:50                       ` Mike Christie
2008-07-31  1:24   ` Karen Xie
2008-07-31 12:45     ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-07-31 12:33 ` Boaz Harrosh

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